WINDOWS PHONE 7

INTRODUCTION
 Windows Phone 7 is a mobile operating system developed by

Microsoft successor to its Window mobile platform.

 It is a elegantly executed ,incredibly , intutive.  Launched in Europe ,Singapore and Australia in October 21,2010  In US and Canada ,it was launched on November 24 ,2010,with

Asia to follow in 2011.

 Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 7 on February 15,2010 at

Mobile World Congress in 2010 in Barcelona and revealed additional details on March 15,2010.
 Final SDK was made available on 16 September,2010. Windows

Phone 7 is a complete and refreshing departure

HISTORY
OPERATING SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
Work on a major Windows mobile update may have begun as early as 2004 under the codename "Photon", but work moved slowly and the project was ultimately The product was to be released in 2009 as Windows Phone.

NAMING
 Windows Phone 7 is a rebranding of Microsoft s

old mobile OS called Windows Mobile.  Microsoft at first announced its new platform as "Windows Phone 7 Series" which initially came under criticism as being too wordy and difficult to say casually.  on April 2, 2010 Microsoft announced that the "Series" would be dropped from the name, leaving the platform named Windows Phone 7.

LAUNCH
In February 2010, a Microsoft press release listed the companies that would help make and operate Windows Phone 7. Hardware are: Dell  Garmin-Asus  HTC  HP  LG  Samsung  Sony Ericsson,  Toshiba  Qualcomm;

Mobile operator include:             

AT&T Deutsche Telekom Orange SFR Sprint Telecom Italia Telefnica Telstra T-Mobile USA Verizon Wireless Vodafone Telus, Bell Canada SingTel.

LANGUAGES
 English  French  Italian  German  Spanish

Windows Phone Marketplace

Australia Austria Belgium Canada  France  Germany  Hong Kong  India
   

 Ireland  Italy  Mexico  New Zealand  Singapore  Spain  Switzerland  Puerto Rico  United Kingdom  United States.

FEATURES

USER INTERFACE
 Windows Phone features a new user

interface, based upon Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 design system, codenamed Metro.  The home screen, called the "Start screen", is made up of "Tiles".  Tiles are links to applications, features, functions and individual items .  Tiles are dynamic and update in real time .

TEXT INPUT

 Users input text by using an on-screen virtual

   

keyboard, which has a dedicated key for inserting emoticons. Spell checking and word prediction are supported. Phones may also be made with a hardware keyboard for text input. Pressing and holding certain keys will reveal similar characters. The keys are somewhat larger and spaced farther apart when in landscape mode.

KEYBOARD

 The phone we had to test with is actually

rather narrow despite its screen size (3.7inches) and resolution (the Windows Phone 7 standard 480 x 800).  The WP7 keyboard is as simple and more than clean as the rest of the OS, showcasing little rows of monochromatic keys (white on black or black on white depending on your app), which pop-up a letter above them when depressed.  General layout offers a familiar placement of the shift, return, and number / punctuation keys, but adds an emoticon button as well.

CONTACT MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL NETWORKING

 Windows Phone 7 doesn't have contacts- it

has a People app  Live, Exchange, or Facebook account, it pulls in every contact associated with that account and disperses associated content throughout your entire phone -- there's nothing you can do about it. and there's not a whole lot you can do to stop that behavior without completely removing your Facebook account from the phone

EMAIL AND CALENDER

 On the email setup screen, you're provided with

self-configuring options for the aforementioned Live, Outlook, Yahoo! Mail, and Gmail..  The email app provides a clean, clear layout and upfront options for your most-used functions.  In the standard inbox view you get your emails with one line , when you delete an email you're kicked back to your inbox -- not to the next message.  Along the bottom of the display you have icons for creating a new message , multi-message editing , and refresh.

SMS

 The SMS / MMS app in Windows Phone 7 are

barebones, and looks pretty good while doing it. and while we can't gripe too hard about that, we wish the company would differentiate sender and receiver by color (even lighter and darker shades of the same color). We found that with the same color used for both incoming and outgoing messages, conversations could get a little confusing.

BROWSER

Camera and photo management

OFFICE

Maps

Xbox Live

Search

Improvements in Windows Phone 7

 Speed  Landscape keyboard support in Internet Explorer  Tap To Top  Screenshot capability  YouTube App.  Easier To Answer Calls  Micro SD Mess  Custom Ringtones  Home screen Customization  Internet Explorer